Here’s a slideshow which details in a series of photos the production of foie gras, the fatty liver of duck or goose… (Yum; No wonder it is cloaked it in French).

This is, the owner of the plant argues, a completely humane process. The reporter seems to sympathize with the producer, adding under each picture pathetically relativist comments to try and play down what is clearly a depraved process.

The animals never see daylight, they’re force-fed with a metal tube, and eventually hung upside down, dipped in an electrified bath and slit across the throat with a knife — but they have wonderfully spacious pens (as big as an office cubicle, it is flatly boasted).